Monuments Reading 2024 — AMMO

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Ammunition Theatre will be presenting a stage reading of Monuments by A’raelle Flynn-Bolden, directed by Celia Mandela Rivera. Monuments is a three-part play that champions care and community in the face of unyielding oppression. The play puts us in the room with Lucy, Anarcha, and Betsey, three enslaved Black women who endured un-anesthetized experimentation at the hands of the “father” of gynecology, J. Marion Sims. It also inverts the legacy of Sims and illuminates the neglected history of the largely unnamed multitude of Black women whose pain shaped the foundation of modern medicine.

March 25th @ 7PM

Boston Court

The Marjorie Branson Performance Space

70 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA 91106